| aglitter | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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| anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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| angling | (noun) fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) | - |
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| astroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells | Synonyms: macroglia |
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| beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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| bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
| dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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| doglike | (adjective) resembling a dog; especially in devotion | - |
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| fledgling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgeling |
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| (adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: callow, unfledged |
| (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgeling |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| gangling | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangly, lanky |
| gangliocyte | (noun) a nerve cell whose body is outside the central nervous system | Synonyms: ganglion cell |
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| ganglion | (noun) an encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons | - |
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| glia | (noun) sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system | Synonyms: neuroglia |
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| glial | (adjective) of or relating to neuroglia | - |
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| glib | (adjective) artfully persuasive in speech | Synonyms: glib-tongued, smooth-tongued |
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| (adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: pat, slick |
| (adjective) marked by lack of intellectual depth | - |
| glibly | (adverb) with superficial plausibility | Synonyms: slickly |
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| glibness | (noun) a kind of fluent easy superficiality | Synonyms: slickness |
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| glide | (noun) the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | Synonyms: coast, slide |
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| (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
| (noun) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | Synonyms: semivowel |
| (verb) move smoothly and effortlessly | - |
| (verb) fly in or as if in a glider plane | - |
| (verb) cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly | - |
| glider | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: sailplane |
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| gliding | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
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| glimmer | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmering, inkling, intimation |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming |
| (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: gleam |
| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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| glimpse | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glance |
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| (noun) a brief or incomplete view | - |
| (noun) a vague indication | - |
| (verb) catch a glimpse of or see briefly | - |
| glint | (noun) a spatially localized brightness | - |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, spark |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine |
| (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, peek |
| glinting | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glioblastoma | (noun) a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal | Synonyms: spongioblastoma |
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| glioma | (noun) a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia | - |
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| glipizide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucotrol) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: Glucotrol |
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| gliricidia | (noun) any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous | - |
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| glissade | (noun) (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet | - |
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| (verb) perform a glissade, in ballet | - |
| glissando | (noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | - |
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| (adverb) (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes) | - |
| glisten | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glister, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glitter, shine |
| glistening | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
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| glister | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| glistering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glitch | (noun) a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine | Synonyms: bug |
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| (verb) To suffer a minor malfunction | - |
| glitter | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, scintillation, sparkle |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, sparkle |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
| glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glitz | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| haggling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, wrangle, wrangling |
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| imbroglio | (noun) a very embarrassing misunderstanding | - |
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| (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: embroilment |
| intaglio | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: diaglyph |
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| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: gravure, intaglio printing |
| jangling | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangly |
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| jingling | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingly |
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| juggling | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggle |
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| (noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggle |
| kinglike | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kingly |
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| leglike | (adjective) resembling or functioning like a leg | - |
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| macroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells | Synonyms: astroglia |
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| manglietia | (noun) a genus of flowering tree of the family Magnoliaceae found from Malay to southern China | Synonyms: genus Manglietia |
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| metheglin | (noun) spiced or medicated mead | - |
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| microglia | (noun) neuroglial tissue of mesodermal origin that can become phagocytic | - |
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| microgliacyte | (noun) a cell of the microglia that may become phagocytic and collect waste products of nerve tissue | - |
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| mingling | (noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact | - |
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| neglige | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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| negligee | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, peignoir, wrapper |
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| negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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| (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
| negligent | (adjective) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern | - |
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| negligently | (adverb) in a negligent manner | - |
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| negligible | (adjective) so small as to be meaningless; insignificant | - |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: paltry, trifling |
| neuroglia | (noun) sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system | Synonyms: glia |
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| neurogliacyte | (noun) a cell of the neuroglia | Synonyms: glial cell, neuroglial cell |
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| neuroglial | (adjective) relating to or consisting of neuroglia | - |
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| niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| oligodendroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers | Synonyms: oligodendria |
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| otoganglion | (noun) an autonomic ganglion whose postganglionic fibers are distributed to the parotid gland | Synonyms: otic ganglion |
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| paragliding | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: parasailing |
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| postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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| ridgling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgeling, ridgil |
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| ringlike | (adjective) having the shape of a ring | - |
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| seraglio | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: hareem, harem, serail |
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| shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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| (noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
| smuggling | (noun) secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due | - |
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| snuggling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching |
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| songlike | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: ariose |
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| springlike | (adjective) resembling a spring or the action of a spring | - |
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| straggling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggly |
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| stragglingly | (adverb) in a ragged irregular manner | Synonyms: raggedly |
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| strangling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangulation, throttling |
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| struggling | (adjective) engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity | - |
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| tagliatelle | (noun) pasta cut in narrow ribbons | - |
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| tingling | (adjective) exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements | Synonyms: tickling, titillating |
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| (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: prickling, tingle |
| twiglike | (adjective) thin as a twig | Synonyms: twiggy |
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| ugli | (noun) large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin | Synonyms: tangelo, ugli fruit |
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| uglify | (verb) make ugly | - |
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| ugliness | (noun) qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: nefariousness, vileness, wickedness |
| untangling | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, extrication, unsnarling |
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| wangling | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangle |
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| wiggliness | (noun) a jerky back and forth kind of mobility | - |
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| winglike | (adjective) resembling a wing in shape or position | - |
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| wrangling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangle |
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| wriggling | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggly, writhing |
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| zabaglione | (noun) light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled | Synonyms: sabayon |
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